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Bashar al-Assad’s Cronies Have Turned War-Torn Syria Into a Narcostate, NYT Reports

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Friends and family members of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad have created an illegal captagon drug haven in the Mediterranean country.

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Nikolay Doychinov via Reuters

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